Improving the Health of Patients and Medical Staff

Each year, millions of patients and medical staff risk radiation exposure from the fluoroscopy imaging equipment used to guide surgeons through minimally invasive surgeries. IKOMED’s innovative technology will offer up to ten-fold reduction in radiation exposure to patients and medical staff.

Medical imaging has become a major source of ionizing radiation exposure to patients and medical staff. This ionizing radiation, impacting the health of human tissues, is significant in dose-intensive medical imaging procedures such as CT, nuclear medicine (SPECT/PET) and fluoroscopy. In the U.S. alone, the radiation exposure from medical procedures in the last few...

Fluoroscopy is a medical imaging technology that is widely used to create real-time movies of internal body structures through X-ray radiation. Fluoroscopy is utilized to guide minimally invasive surgical interventions where catheters, or tools, are inserted percutaneously in order to diagnose and treat internal organs.
Minimally invasive surgery is a growing field in...

Existing pulsed-fluoroscopy systems expose a certain area (field-of-view) of the patient’s body to a series of short X-ray pulses that capture an image time-series at the detector and present them to the surgeon as a fluoroscopic movie.
In most cases, the surgeon performing the procedure is interested in a smaller region within the full field-of-view, where the eye...